This is the last weekly report of the year 2023 from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. It also contains updates for CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team, as the CPE initiatives are in most cases tied to I&R work. Happy holidays, thanks for your interest and see you in 2024!

We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details, look below the infographic.

Week: 11 December – 15 December 2023

Infrastructure & Release Engineering

The purpose of this team is to take care of day to day business regarding CentOS and Fedora Infrastructure and Fedora release engineering work.
It’s responsible for services running in Fedora and CentOS infrastructure and preparing things for the new Fedora release (mirrors, mass branching, new namespaces etc.).
Planning board

Fedora Infra

• Bump debuginfod.stg RAM
• Request for a “kernel-maintainer” FAS group
• Koschei is down
• [ResultsDB] Use the correct API version for deployment config
• Pagure Exporter v0.1.2 is OUT NOW!

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

• ELN reposync storage consumption
• Duffy fails to provision C9S nodes

Release Engineering

• koji newRepo tasks frequently failing with “GenericError: Repo directory missing”
• Retarget f39-toolchain to rawhide/f40
• No new Fedora Atomic desktops composes since 2023-12-05

CPE Initiatives

EPEL

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Linux (OL).

Updates

• Updated python-boto3 and python-s3transfer in EPEL 9 Next to work with updated python-botocore in CentOS Stream 9
• Started discussion for a policy change to improve EPEL Next branching

Community Design

CPE has few members that are working as part of Community Design Team. This team is working on anything related to design in Fedora Community.

Updates

• Creative Freedom Summit schedule / accepted talks will be released soon 🙂 
• Looking for feedback https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-40-wallpaper/98951

ARC Investigations

The ARC (which is a subset of the CPE team) investigates possible initiatives that CPE might take on.

Updates

• Dist-Git decoupling & ecosystem mapping
  • Fedora Packit interactions with dist-git added

List of new releases of apps maintained by CPE

• Major update of Bodhi from 7.2.2 to 8.0.0 on 2023-12-10
• Minor update of Fedora Maubot from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0 on 2023-12-09
• Minor update of The New Hotness from 1.2.4 to 1.3.0 on 2023-12-08

If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on matrix.